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Already, henequeneros had heard that the U.S. Government would discontinue its wartime practice of buying their entire exportable surplus. Now from New York came news that Rogers International Corp. had sold the Russian fishing industry 8,000,000 lbs. of war-surplus cordage at 9¼? a Ib.-half the price the U.S. Government paid last year in Yucat...
...aristocrats in Merida's little country club might well have concluded that this was where they came in. In twelve years after World War I, International Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel. One of the Gutierrez scions...
Love Story. In Leitchfield, Ky., 275-Ib. Maggie Oiler, 39, and A. B. Farris, 99, were remarried after twenty years of divorce, because "we couldn't live without each other...
...handiwork and she hung it on the front porch of the white clapboard house on Oliver Street. She made a pad for it, and whenever it came apart, she patched it up with wire. One afternoon last week the wire gave way. Down in a heap went 165-Ib. Tom Dewey, 210-lb. National Committeeman Arthur E. Summerfield, 180-Ib. State Committee Treasurer Ben 0. Shepherd. No casualties...
Cheer in the Cupboards. In high hog prices, the U.S. was paying for the post-OPA stampede of pigs to market last fall. The hog crop was so depleted then that pork would remain relatively scarce until May. There was a good prospect of $1-a-Ib. pork chops-if anyone would buy them. But there was no reason why anyone should; there was plenty of other lower-priced food to eat. The Department of Agriculture was actually worried because there was so much food in cold storage. Example: there were 140 million Ibs. of turkeys in cold storage...